kaxxa-abba

Afar

Etymology

From kaxxá (“to be old”) +‎ abbá (“father”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaɖːabˈba/ [kʌɖːʌbˈbʌ]
  • Hyphenation: kax‧xa‧ab‧ba

Noun

kaxxa-abbá m 

  1. grandfather

Declension

Declension of kaxxa-abbá
absolutive kaxxa-abbá
predicative kaxxa-abbá
subjective kaxxa-abbí
genitive kaxxa-abbí
Postpositioned forms
l-case kaxxa-abbál
k-case kaxxa-abbák
t-case kaxxa-abbát
h-case kaxxa-abbáh

Coordinate terms

Descendants

  • → Translingual: Ardipithecus kadabba

References

  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN, page 299
  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎[1], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)
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